(1 Samuel 3:1-20, 1 Corinthians 14:12-20) As many as 1 million older people are starving in their homes because of loneliness and isolation, according to a cross-party parliamentary report. There is always a degree of hype around such headlines. But if it’s anywhere near true, it’s a real sign of how, paradoxically, when we are bound ever more tightly together in a global community, people are becoming ever more disconnected from one another. Our faith should pull us in the